Full-course meal emotionally.

Well, now they’re just subverting expectations left and right, aren’t they!

Oh, wow, I can’t believe I forgot about that… Feels weird, like remembering the better times of past relationships, Jesus=))

At this point, something tells me you could find a compatibility layer for WinRAR support on some dingy forum which has heavy peepshow vibes. Never underestimate people’s fetishes.

I don’t care if this makes me a bad person, I get such immense satisfaction from this kind of emotional blowout. It’s so fulfilling to see bona fide narcissists fail then go hysterical about it❤️

Something has to give, though… I feel we’re stuck between two fronts moving in opposite directions, one being the continued degradation of our social world, and the other being the accumulated and now snowballing fatigue brought about by said degradation, and they’re just grinding us down while we’re trying to get a grip.

We’ve reached the point where hiding away in the backyard for a bit is too little to regain a significant enough portion of that energy debt, and to add to that, our backyards have now kinda’ been flooded with that bullshit which was still relatively manageable a decade ago. That applies even to those who are actively in denial, maybe even more than to those who at least look it in the eye, because mirror neurons are still a thing - this fatigue is a resonant frequency and we inevitably pick the stress up from everyone else around us, whether we want to or not. I’ve lived through a recession and I don’t remember people being this run down back then (no, we weren’t particularly rich, that belt was tightened up something fierce).

We’re cascading, everything’s cascading, and it’ll take all of us with it if we just let it happen. Something has to give.

Is this magicspeak for the clap? It’s the clap, isn’t it…

Nope, you’re very much on target. The best one I can remember, Constantinescu, was good because he literally didn’t do anything, either bad or good. He even said at the end of his presidency that the system had defeated him.

Our government and political scene in general is now essentially a web of nepotism and private business interests, which runs on corruption. I swear, it’s like nobody does shit to you as long as you don’t steal from the big ones. Otherwise, nobody really gives a crap…

Or you get straight-up weirdos, instead! Vadim Tudor deserved to be seen globally, we could’ve sold him as The Local Nutjob!

By ““discreetly”” starting to kiss Trump’s ass a little while after he’d win. Yes. We know. Let’s stick with Europe, though, please? Like, seriously?

So, not to be weird, but I’ve seen several of your posts around and it seems to me like you’ve been going through an emotionally rough time - end of a relationship, significant change in living conditions, douchebag neighbors, all of these can take a hefty toll on one’s psyche.

I’m not a licensed anything, but what you’re going through reminds me of some of my more unstable times (not meant euphemistically), when I needed some solid ground beneath my feet so much, that I started choking the life out of anything around me, be it becoming overbearing to my pets, to my romantic interests, oversharing to my mum, I was spilling over, essentially.

I’d say you should move on from this situation entirely and take the L. Yeah, it wasn’t exactly a good move, but it really does sound like that guy presented no more interest than simply having been there. And go easy on yourself, making mistakes doesn’t mean we need to also include beating ourselves up about them afterwards as long as we learn the lesson.

Take some time away for and from yourself. Change your context for a while, I’d recommend considering spending a week in a different city with the purpose of taking it easy. If you’re a plan person, make plans. If you’re a homebody, stay indoors. Just do it elsewhere, get away from the neighbors and everything else which carries the echo of your current situation. And focus on returning to a baseline with yourself afterwards, hopefully with a bit more gas in the tank.

Bless you!

Joke aside, looks delish!

I loved that movie, it left me thoroughly confused!

Yep, same goes for ER! I dunno why so many people are against Ranni’s thing, it’s the one thing which brings actual change and restores free will.

Did I understand anything of what I did for her? Heck, no! But I got the significance of it!

Edit: oh, and there’s a similar theme going on in Armored Core VI, love that one’s story! And the lore is a bit more accessible, too, surprisingly fleshed out!

I’ve also found that FS are really good at outlining the moral weight of lore elements, like you can pretty much tell right from wrong, even though you don’t understand anything about what’s been done. Or that’s what I got from how they lay things out, at least. Like, “I have no idea what or why that person wants me to do, but something feels fishy about it,” kinda’.

Thanks, eyes!

Maybe they’ll have faith in our highway system and speed right through the dead end! Nobody tell’em we only have bits, show them the 20km Milestone party pics!

No, thanks! You can keep him!

Let me put it this way: nobody skipped classes when the teachers knew how to actually explain and teach and didn’t just shovel decontextualised information down our gullets for us to rote and then regurgitate on paper. Yes, we’ve had plenty of Trumps…

Edit: as for your last addition, yep. The context was not the issue, the issue is that I forgot that not everyone went through the Romanian educational system.

First thing which popped into my mind. That kind of experience taught me that sometimes solidarity is more important than anything else.

Thank you for trying with me, honestly. Feels as though they’ve already won, but I don’t have it in me to end it, so to speak. At least, not from what I’ve seen so far.

I have no idea what I’ll do, and I’m so tired of spite…

Anyway, hope you’ll have better days than mine, thank you once again!